John Oliver Digs Into the Increasingly Fraught Subject of Libraries
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re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
I think whoever was in charge of calculating the wind load had better recheck their calculations.
re: #133 Vicious Babushka
That would make a great ad for a pharmacy chain: “Rite Here, Rite Now, Rite Aid!”
At Lauren Boebert’s son’s last court appearance, he told the judge he didn’t have enough money for an attorney so the judge gave him more time. He showed up again today with no attorney and also forgot to fill out the Public Defender application. https://t.co/Y7wLaclDba
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2024
Doing mom proud, I see.
Jury duty complete, mostly painless.
Yesterday — 5 hours in the jurors check-in room, 1 hour in a courtroom where the judge sent away people with travel plans, doctors appointments and family events.
Today — 3 hours of voie dire, didn’t get picked, “thank you all, your jury service is complete.” Home by lunch.
when I say *mostly* painless — extra enhanced security because it’s the same courthouse where the treasonweasel is being tried. The tinfoil around the piece of chocolate the restaurant gave me after dinner the other day… was enough to set off the metal detector.
Also — $45 cabfare each way (including tip). And they pay $40/day. So I spent $100 to fulfill my civic obligations.
Other very very local good news — the diner I used to eat breakfast at 2 or 3 times a week, that I’ve missed a lot since they couldn’t meet the rent increase during the pandemic; and for 3 years there’s been a series of “coming soon!!” signs on the boarded up windows — soon finally happened! They opened yesterday, they’re good. (Kossar Bagels & Bialys).
A level of pettiness to which we can all aspire. Resident of Seaside, California was ordered to build a fence to hide from view the boat he parks next to his house. He complied.
So apparently Baron has been selected by the Florida GOP as an at-large delegate for the RNC convention. 🤦♂️
re: #8 Markm1960
So apparently Baron has been selected by BBC the Florida GOP as an at-large delegate for the RNC convention. 🤦♂️
Beat me to it! Does this mean he is now fair game for commentary? Doesn’t seem worth it. (Nor will I go after him unless he does something really stupid.)
re: #11 calochortus
Beat me to it! Does this mean he is now fair game for commentary? Doesn’t seem worth it. (Nor will I go after him unless he does something really stupid.)
I think it just means that any hopes that he wouldn’t also turn out to be a malignant turd like the rest of the family were misplaced.
What the hell? The CEO is approving every single purchase order in a company with $80bn in annual operating costs??!?!
www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel…
re: #11 calochortus
Beat me to it! Does this mean he is now fair game for commentary? Doesn’t seem worth it. (Nor will I go after him unless he does something really stupid.)
Of course, 18 year olds are notorious for doing something stupid. With the parents he has, he may not have a chance to become a decent person.
re: #13 goddamnedfrank
Elon’s on the Trump trajectory.
re: #5 sagehen
Jury duty complete, mostly painless.
Yesterday — 5 hours in the jurors check-in room, 1 hour in a courtroom where the judge sent away people with travel plans, doctors appointments and family events.
Today — 3 hours of voie dire, didn’t get picked, “thank you all, your jury service is complete.” Home by lunch.
when I say *mostly* painless — extra enhanced security because it’s the same courthouse where the treasonweasel is being tried. The tinfoil around the piece of chocolate the restaurant gave me after dinner the other day… was enough to set off the metal detector.
Also — $45 cabfare each way (including tip). And they pay $40/day. So I spent $100 to fulfill my civic obligations.
Other very very local good news — the diner I used to eat breakfast at 2 or 3 times a week, that I’ve missed a lot since they couldn’t meet the rent increase during the pandemic; and for 3 years there’s been a series of “coming soon!!” signs on the boarded up windows — soon finally happened! They opened yesterday, they’re good. (Kossar Bagels & Bialys).
ah, but because you didn’t get picked , you ARE back in the “could be picked again at any time” group. I luckily got picked for a jury that then got shut down before things went to trial (kid was looking at 20 years for various drug-dealing offenses. I’m assuming he pleaded down to something for half that). So it’s been 10 years and still haven’t had to go back to Pickens, at least, to do court in the fancy big room.
re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter
given his family and father it is only a matter of time before he does something stupid to please Daddy.
re: #16 steve_davis
I think it’s still random, I was called up only a couple years after serving on a jury. I was no longer needed after first call in but it’s a crapshoot here in california anyways.
re: #15 jaunte
Elon’s on the Trump trajectory.
The status of your repair is…checks notes…poop emoji.
UT Austin police don’t want to release body-camera footage from the first day of the major pro-Palestinian protests, per Austin public radio reporter Lauren McGaughy. They’ve asked Texas AG Ken Paxton to rule on whether they can be exempted from public-disclosure rules.
re: #18 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I think it’s still random, I was called up only a couple years after serving on a jury. I was no longer needed after first call in but it’s a crapshoot here in california anyways.
I _think_ here in South Carolina, it’s 3 years’ grace if you get picked for a jury, whether it’s seated or not. It used to be that only people who voted were in the pool and I can’t tell you how many people I met who did not vote specifically because they did not want to get called for jury duty. I don’t know….I guess if existence is so hand to mouth that you literally cannot take a couple of days potentially for jury duty, I understand. But it does seem like kind of a non-citizen way of acting.
re: #21 steve_davis
I _think_ here in South Carolina, it’s 3 years’ grace if you get picked for a jury, whether it’s seated or not. It used to be that only people who voted were in the pool and I can’t tell you how many people I met who did not vote specifically because they did not want to get called for jury duty. I don’t know….I guess if existence is so hand to mouth that you literally cannot take a couple of days potentially for jury duty, I understand. But it does seem like kind of a non-citizen way of acting.
I knew people who did not register to vote for that very reason, because they had demanding careers and did not want the inconvenience and disruption to their normal work life. However, at least some states eventually caught on and decided to expand to other lists to get jurors.
re: #152 steve_davis
you don’t normally get a blowjob delivering pizza? Well, there goes one idea for the summer.
Dominos alumnus.
1970s
Can testify
re: #21 steve_davis
I just looked, here it’s at least a year even if not picked, if you are picked and serve it tends to be longer.
Meanwhile In Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr. Land
He can’t get his story straight about Mr. Worm.
Keeps telling different versions.
RFK Jr. Gave Conflicting Stories About His Brain Worm
re: #13 goddamnedfrank
I mean, what do you expect when you fire all your support staff?
More witnesses, and each are showing how Trump was personally and directly involved in signing Trump Org and DJT checks. He was always involved in signing these.
Bad news for Trump.
MANGOLD: Signature practices, did he use an automated signature or sign by himself?
WESTERHOUT: he signed by himself
MANGOLD: particular type of pen?
WESTERHOUT: sharpies or pentel felt tip
MANGOLD: Did he typically read things before signing them?
WESTERHOUT: “Um, y-yes”— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) May 9, 2024
Baron Trump being a delegate for Florida should be viewed the same way that Trump’s daughter in law being made mouthpiece for the RNC: we’re watching conservatives realign to show loyalty, as you would to a dictator or monarch.
re: #11 calochortus
Beat me to it! Does this mean he is now fair game for commentary? Doesn’t seem worth it. (Nor will I go after him unless he does something really stupid.)
He’ll be in the background. Remember “he does the cyber”.
re: #5 sagehen
Parochial local references hidden:
So, you being on the UWS (the Kossar’s reference being the giveaway).
I get the PO about the $45 cab fare - maybe dating me, but I can recall that even a metered trip to JFK/LGA wouldn’t run one $45. You get another jury-duty call, let me know: I’ve moved to Tribeca, an (at most) three-minute amble to the Courthouses - including a few seconds to pay respects at the African Burial Grounds: I can assume your identity for a small, reasonable recompense - maybe some of those bagels….
re: #6 jaunte
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Only thing I might suggest be added is an image of the home owner in full cabana wear, flipping the bird.
re: #32 The Ghost of a Flea
Baron Trump being a delegate for Florida should be viewed the same way that Trump’s daughter in law being made mouthpiece for the RNC: we’re watching conservatives realign to show loyalty, as you would to a dictator or monarch.
fwiw, it’s a ‘good’ thing this is happening now, at his advanced age, and not somehow 30 years ago
re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅
Meanwhile In Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr. Land
He can’t get his story straight about Mr. Worm.
Keeps telling different versions.
RFK Jr. Gave Conflicting Stories About His Brain Worm
Pretty soon, he’ll be claiming he shot it because it was dangerous and killed some chickens.
RFK Jr. thinks there should be no government limits on abortion.
“Even if it’s full-term. I don’t think it’s ever OK… I think we have to leave it to the women rather than the state.”
his running mate was …surprised
😢
Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson was placed in a court-ordered conservatorship Thursday that will be run by his longtime publicist and manager, Jean Sievers, and his longtime business manager, LeeAnn Hard. The reps revealed in a petition filed last February that Wilson is suffering from dementia at the age of 81.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Gus T. May granted the petition after finding that Wilson is living with a “major neurocognitive disorder” and needs the assistance as the least restrictive way to address his needs. The judge also added a last-minute addendum after hearing from a lawyer representing Wilson’s two eldest daughters - the Wilson Phillips musicians Carnie Wilson Bonfiglio and Wendy Wilson Knutson.
GOP Missouri lawmaker Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch says child labor laws should be rolled back because her constituents are raising lazy children who join gangs instead of working fulltime at age 9 like she did. 👍 pic.twitter.com/1cJUrQaL3Q
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 9, 2024
1. bet she wasnt ‘working’ at 9
2. she’s the bozo who said students at Columbia Public Schools dressed as animals were using litterboxes as bathrooms.
re: #11 calochortus
Beat me to it! Does this mean he is now fair game for commentary? Doesn’t seem worth it. (Nor will I go after him unless he does something really stupid.)
It’s just a matter of time. They wouldn’t let him do that if they thought he WASN’T stupid. He’s expected to be stupid, it’s in the job description.
Porn star Stormy Daniels was cross-examined by Trump attorney Susan Necheles at his “hush money” criminal trial:
NECHELES: You have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex appear real.
DANIELS: Wow… that’s not how I would put it. The sex in the films is very much real — just like what happened to me in that room.
Necheles seems to be asking questions for an Alabama jury, not a New York jury.
re: #46 Charles Johnson
Necheles seems to be asking questions for an Alabama jury, not a New York jury.
Disagree. She was asking questions that Trump thought would help him, when he either didn’t know or care the answer, and his lawyers went along with it.
If you’re doing direct or cross, you want to have a good idea of what the testimony will be. Daniels was volatile as a witness, but she was going to put Trump in his place, and if you attacked her, she’d attack back.
This line of questioning wasn’t going to win Trump fans anywhere, whether it was Alabama or New York.
“Trump can paint Biden as the chaos candidate — and himself as a return to normalcy — he can win.” - Marc Thiessen, Wapo today
normalcy is ordering his defense to do this cross examination:
Katie Phang@KatiePhang
NECHELES: “Because he was supposedly in a t-shirt and boxer shorts, you were so upset that he wanted to have sex with you, that you couldn’t speak up?”……Not the first time in your life someone made a pass at you…
DANIELS: This was the first time that they had a bodyguard outside the door. And “They were twice my age and bigger than me.”
9:11 AM * May 9, 2024
re: #47 lawhawk
Disagree. She was asking questions that Trump thought would help him, when he either didn’t know or care the answer, and his lawyers went along with it.
If you’re doing direct or cross, you want to have a good idea of what the testimony will be. Daniels was volatile as a witness, but she was going to put Trump in his place, and if you attacked her, she’d attack back.
This line of questioning wasn’t going to win Trump fans anywhere, whether it was Alabama or New York.
True, but I was talking about what appears to be an expectation that she should be ashamed of her profession. That won’t fly with the average New Yorker.
re: #48 Dangerman
“Trump can paint Biden as the chaos candidate — and himself as a return to normalcy — he can win.” - Marc Thiessen, Wapo today
What the actual fuck?
re: #51 Mike Lamb
What the actual fuck?
Marc Thiessen. Totally predictable. Anything honest or decent from him would be the shock.
re: #23 Dangerman
Dominos alumnus.
1970s
Can testify
Me, too. But I did get a joint once from a girl wearing only a towel around her waist!
Trump probably ordered Necheles to go the slut shaming route.
re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter
Marc Thiessen. Totally predictable. Anything honest or decent from him would be the shock.
i think maybe he and Turley ‘collaborate’ over TFG
re: #53 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Me, too. But I did get a joint once from a girl wearing only a towel around her waist!
+1
it was cold where i was ;-)
re: #59 A Cranky One
And here I thought it died from the steroids…
JFC! This guy is from another fucking planet.
This interview is seriously whacked out, both the questions and Dorsey’s bizarre answers.
He has “a strategy for ending censorship forever!” lol
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-09T20:23:05.000Z
re: #61 Charles Johnson
He’s someone else who needs to go away and never be heard from again.
Wow, Jack Dorsey REALLY has a bad case of brain worms. I mean, I knew already, but wowee zowee he’s bananapants.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
JFC! This guy is from another fucking planet.
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He left the Bluesky board because they implemented moderation. Moderation! You know he’s a serious braindead techbro when he thinks moderation is a bad thing. He’s cut from the same cloth as serious braindead techbro Elno.
re: #37 Dangerman
fwiw, it’s a ‘good’ thing this is happening now, at his advanced age, and not somehow 30 years ago
Pat Buchanan tried running as a blood and soil Nazi type, and failed miserably (after winning the NH GOP primary) in 1996. Thirty years of GOP degeneration enabled Trump to succeed with that playbook in 2016.
But it has to be noted that the ongoing failures, perversions and distortions of capitalism have set the stage for populism, and in the absence of a healthy populism from the left, the Nazis will do entirely too well with their fake populism.
re: #60 Joe Bacon ✅
And here I thought it died from the steroids…
Oh, you know RFK Jr’s definitely on gear.
re: #8 Markm1960
So apparently Baron has been selected by the Florida GOP as an at-large delegate for the RNC convention. 🤦♂️
Seeing now he is an adult aged public figure placed into a position of entitlement, power and yet another product of pure nepotism, let me feel free to express my true feelings about him:
I hope he brings some sort of clarity and new considerations of youth and inclusiveness into a very evil GOP machine now dedicated to overthrowing US democracy by any means possible.
My hopes for him are high, my expectations very very low…. Like, quantum ground state low.
re: #63 Charles Johnson
Wow, Jack Dorsey REALLY has a bad case of brain worms. I mean, I knew already, but wowee zowee he’s bananapants.
how does bananapants compare to looneytunes?
is there a scale?
re: #67 Florida Panhandler
The only hope I have for Republicans is that they destroy their own party without killing everyone else first.
re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅
Meanwhile In Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr. Land
He can’t get his story straight about Mr. Worm.
Keeps telling different versions.
RFK Jr. Gave Conflicting Stories About His Brain Worm
at the time mr. brain worm was a convenient excuse to get out of alimony
Jack Dorsey has floated so high up in the rarified air where his fellow Libertarians float that his brain is so starved of oxygen he now totally lives in his Ayn Randian Laissez Fairyland.
re: #31 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I think the MAGA style red hat is a nice touch.
needs a goat, too
re: #41 Dangerman
GOP Missouri lawmaker Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch says child labor laws should be rolled back because her constituents are raising lazy children who join gangs instead of working fulltime at age 9 like she did.
Heard it here, will repeat it once more: State Legislatures are the meth labs of democracy.
re: #41 Dangerman
Submit to your capitalist overlords and work f your entire life. Fuck that.
ETA - She lies
re: #43 sizzzzlerz
And he went back to his real home after saying (metaphically) fuck this.
re: #75 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Submit to your capitalist overlords and work f your entire life. Fuck that.
More fundamentally, this attitude that “because I did it, you should have to do it, too.” It’s the same attitude behind their opposition to student loan debt cancellation: “I had to work 3 jobs and pay off thousands in student loans, therefore everybody else should, too.” It’s the same selfish attitude that gives us, “I got mine, now fuck you.” It’s self-centeredness taken to the maximum, because the speaker is demanding that everyone else suffer as they have.
re: #64 Nerdy Fish
He left the Bluesky board because they implemented moderation. Moderation! You know he’s a serious braindead techbro when he thinks moderation is a bad thing. He’s cut from the same cloth as serious braindead techbro Elno.
I’d be okay with no moderation in an app that also had no anonymity.
re: #78 JC1
I’d be okay with no moderation in an app that also had no anonymity.
Nope. I don’t want real-life Nazis on my timeline any more than I want anonymous Nazis on my timeline. Fuuuuck that.
re: #77 Nerdy Fish
Yup. Never understanding the whole concept of community and the metaphor of a rising tide raises all ships.
re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅
Meanwhile In Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr. Land
He can’t get his story straight about Mr. Worm.
Keeps telling different versions.
RFK Jr. Gave Conflicting Stories About His Brain Worm
Maybe it’s this earth worm at my front door this morning after last night’s storm. At first glance I thought it was a Ring Neck snake.
(Ruler is 7 “ for scale)
re: #81 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Yup. Never understanding the whole concept of community and the metaphor of a rising tide raises all ships.
meaningless to people who don’t even have a boat
re: #80 Nerdy Fish
Nope. I don’t want real-life Nazis on my timeline any more than I want anonymous Nazis on my timeline. Fuuuuck that.
No one is forced to be on social network apps, and the block function exists.
I’d want jackasses on record with their shitty views.
re: #30 lawhawk
More witnesses, and each are showing how Trump was personally and directly involved in signing Trump Org and DJT checks. He was always involved in signing these.
Bad news for Trump.
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I now feel kind of dirty knowing trump also favors the pentel felt tip.
re: #84 JC1
No one is forced to be on social network apps, and the block function exists.
I’d want jackasses on record with their shitty views.
You said “no moderation.” That includes block functions, not just reporting and removal tools.
I am pleasantly surprised. Normally I would get my Election Day pay up to a month later. I just got it today.
re: #78 JC1
I’d be okay with no moderation in an app that also had no anonymity.
Today, an X Bluecheck called me a “fake, phony, and fraud” because I have neither a picture nor my real name on the platform. The person was a proud MAGAt who believed the story that Hur had real evidence against Biden but refused to charge him because he was too feeble. I don’t want a profile in a situation where someone could dox me and make my life a nightmare. The proudest Nazis and Christian nationalists are fine with revealing their true identity and unafraid to march bearing banners to their hatred but they post a real threat to the rest of us.
re: #86 Nerdy Fish
You said “no moderation.” That includes block functions, not just reporting and removal tools.
Moderation implies some third party intervention; the block function doesn’t accomplish that — it only keeps that person from responding or maybe even viewing your posts. A site will be overrun with lies, porn, racist and religious hatred, and threats if there is no moderation.
re: #47 lawhawk
Disagree. She was asking questions that Trump thought would help him, when he either didn’t know or care the answer, and his lawyers went along with it.
If you’re doing direct or cross, you want to have a good idea of what the testimony will be. Daniels was volatile as a witness, but she was going to put Trump in his place, and if you attacked her, she’d attack back.
This line of questioning wasn’t going to win Trump fans anywhere, whether it was Alabama or New York.
It was purely about his reputation, doing everything possible to insinuate that she’d done everything (from sleeping with him to telling the press about it) to make money. That even her agreement to testify in this trial was about avoiding paying legal fees to him. That (of course) he’s the only one in this entire trial whose motives are pure.
re: #41 Dangerman
1. bet she wasnt ‘working’ at 9
2. she’s the bozo who said students at Columbia Public Schools dressed as animals were using litterboxes as bathrooms.
“Kids as young as 9 should be working full time jobs to keep them out of gangs!”
“So does this mean that they’ll be able to retire earlier?”
“FUCK YOU, GET BACK TO WORK!”
re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Heard it here, will repeat it once more: State Legislatures are the meth labs of democracy.
She’s just another rubber stamp for Christopher Rufo’s plan to end public schools and repealing all child labor laws so kids can take over the jobs currently held by those soon to be rounded up immigrants
PSA via Philly Inquirer.
“A severe geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth on Friday, triggering colorful nighttime auroras, or the northern lights. People in the United States could see moderate to strong geomagnetic activity starting around 11 p.m. and lasting through Saturday.
Current forecasts project the lights could be seen as far south as Alabama and California, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. Chances of seeing the lights will be highest in the northern United States, Canada and northern Europe.”
Rain and clouds here. We see if we can see.
re: #92 Targetpractice
“Kids as young as 9 should be working full time jobs to keep them out of gangs!”
“So does this mean that they’ll be able to retire earlier?”
“FUCK YOU, GET BACK TO WORK!”
Well gosh when a kid gets disabled in an industrial accident????
Well according to Phony Joni Ernst the churches will step in to take care of the truly needy.
re: #91 Targetpractice
It was a beautiful own goal by the defense. Grilling Stormy about blacking out during sex with Trump just seared the image into the minds of the jurors. Slut shaming backfired repeatedly… she is used to being called a slut…it doesn’t hurt her. Asking questions when you don’t know the answer? Isn’t that covered in Intro to Trial Court 1A?
Stormy responding by saying, “show me where I said that” was also brutal. No wonder Trump wanted the gag order lifted…he can’t respond to this under oath.
re: #82 BeenHereAwhile
Worm that size needs a bigger brain than RFK’s
re: #94 nines09
Rain and clouds here too. :(
re: #41 Dangerman
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1. bet she wasnt ‘working’ at 9
2. she’s the bozo who said students at Columbia Public Schools dressed as animals were using litterboxes as bathrooms.
It was rough. Have you ever done a 1040 in crayon?
re: #96 darthstar
It was a beautiful own goal by the defense. Grilling Stormy about blacking out during sex with Trump just seared the image into the minds of the jurors. Slut shaming backfired repeatedly… she is used to being called a slut…it doesn’t hurt her. Asking questions when you don’t know the answer? Isn’t that covered in Intro to Trial Court 1A?
Stormy responding by saying, “show me where I said that” was also brutal. No wonder Trump wanted the gag order lifted…he can’t respond to this under oath.
Necheles gave the performance that we were told earlier in the trial Trump was pissed that Blanche wasn’t providing him: angry, combative, and destructive. Instead of approaching Daniels as a fact witness and keeping the cross-exam short by focusing on inconsistencies in her testimony, Necheles instead spent her time trying to attack Daniels’ motives for testifying and restoring Trump’s reputation by ruining hers. The jury’s not there to judge her on her career choice or her reasons for going to the press with her story, they’re there to hear her confirm that the two had a sexual encounter and that he paid her for it.
re: #101 Targetpractice
Necheles gave the performance that we were told earlier in the trial Trump was pissed that Blanche wasn’t providing him: angry, combative, and destructive. Instead of approaching Daniels as a fact witness and keeping the cross-exam short by focusing on inconsistencies in her testimony, Necheles instead spent her time trying to attack Daniels’ motives for testifying and restoring Trump’s reputation by ruining hers. The jury’s not there to judge her on her career choice or her reasons for going to the press with her story, they’re there to hear her confirm that the two had a sexual encounter and that he paid her for it.
Surely it’s irrelevant that Trump paid her for sex. What’s relevant is that Trump later on did all kinds of crimes to make a hush money payment to her from the wrong pot of money and then try to pass it off as a normal business expense.
So Prick Scott decided to slime everyone Trump can’t.
What a piece of ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream 🤬
re: #103 EPR-radar
Surely it’s irrelevant that Trump paid her for sex. What’s relevant is that Trump later on did all kinds of crimes to make a hush money payment to her from the wrong pot of money and then try to pass it off as a normal business expense.
Ding!
And don’t call me, you know…
Bluesky dev Paul Frazee is reacting to that Dorsey interview.
I’m going to let other people comment on the other aspects of this, but one part I want to speak to is this:
“everything we wanted in terms of an open source protocol, suddenly became a company with VCs and a board”
🧵
re: #103 EPR-radar
Surely it’s irrelevant that Trump paid her for sex. What’s relevant is that Trump later on did all kinds of crimes to make a hush money payment to her from the wrong pot of money and then try to pass it off as a normal business expense.
They’re trying to use it to paint her as an untrustworthy witness because, eww, sex worker. That’s why the judge is allowing all this.
I don’t normally comment on this stuff but I guess I’ve just hit my limit. I’ve been watching Jay make consistently strong strategic decisions under incredible pressure, and watching her get dogged by this 2nd rate nonsense is too much. That guy isn’t the story. The fact Jay charted her own path is.
re: #106 Charles Johnson
Bluesky dev Paul Frazee is reacting to that Dorsey interview.
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That has to be one of the oldest stories in American business history: Guy starts something he intended to be “free,” then started charging for it as soon as he realized he could charge people money to buy/use it.
re: #41 Dangerman
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1. bet she wasnt ‘working’ at 9
2. she’s the bozo who said students at Columbia Public Schools dressed as animals were using litterboxes as bathrooms.
And in addition to her furry obsession, per local Reddit comments:
Cheri is the one who brought a gun to the library bc library patrons scare her. She’s also the one who declared that 12 year olds should have the right to marry and any law infringing on that right violated religious freedom…also, she proudly posted about “picking up litter” when she really just took all of a homeless person’s belongings from a secluded spot and threw them in a dumpster. As Jesus would have wanted, right?
Bump stock ban, electronic firearm sale record bills fail in Pennsylvania House
HARRISBURG, Pa. —
The divisive issue of gun control brought a rally and two failed attempts at passing legislation on Tuesday to the Pennsylvania Capitol.A bill banning bump stocks and similar devices failed in a 101-100 vote in the Pennsylvania House on a near party-line vote that saw one Democrat, Rep. Frank Burns, D-Cambria County, side with Republicans in keeping the bill short by a single vote needed to pass.
The same margin held for a bill that would require firearm dealers to report gun sales electronically. Both pieces of legislation could be brought up for reconsideration.
re: #99 PhillyPretzel ✅
Decades of missing the busy night of the Perseids Meteor Shower because rain/clouds/etc.
Every. Year.
re: #12 Unabogie
I think it just means that any hopes that he wouldn’t also turn out to be a malignant turd like the rest of the family were misplaced.
He had no chance. His father is horrible and his mother is no better. But I don’t really care, do u?
re: #35 Joe Bacon ✅
those internal polls must not be looking very good…
re: #112 nines09
Decades of missing the busy night of the Perseids Meteor Shower because rain/clouds/etc.
Every. Year.
You’ll have another chance in mid-August.
re: #107 Nerdy Fish
They’re trying to use it to paint her as an untrustworthy witness because, eww, sex worker. That’s why the judge is allowing all this.
because the undertone via TFG himself is it never happened
re: #101 Targetpractice
Necheles gave the performance that we were told earlier in the trial Trump was pissed that Blanche wasn’t providing him: angry, combative, and destructive. Instead of approaching Daniels as a fact witness and keeping the cross-exam short by focusing on inconsistencies in her testimony, Necheles instead spent her time trying to attack Daniels’ motives for testifying and restoring Trump’s reputation by ruining hers. The jury’s not there to judge her on her career choice or her reasons for going to the press with her story, they’re there to hear her confirm that the two had a sexual encounter and that he paid her for it.
I think they genuinely fucked up the cross-examination today. Necheles going so hard on the sex part of the story and Daniels’ black out/disassociation opened the door for the prosecution on redirect. They didn’t seem to spend any real time or energy on the NDA or negotiations, you know, the stuff that might actually help their client.
Moderation - In 2008-12 I ran a moderated Ning community about disc golf that had 13,000 users in hundreds of groups, who shared hundreds of thousands of images. The motto was “Behave as though everyone in here is your friend.” It worked really well. No flame wars, no threats, nothing like that at all was allowed. I had to close it down due to my day job and I really wish I had not. It was such a nice community. I crushed any nasty stuff but didn’t have to do that very often.
re: #115 Decatur Deb
You’ll have another chance in mid-August.
And I bet it rains or is cloudy. Not kidding. THE big night? SOL.
re: #117 Dangerman
who you going to believe? A woman who gets paid to have sex in films or a serial adulterer, who’s been convicted of sexual assault and caught on tape that he has used his money and power to get women to sleep with him….
a conundrum for sure… I’m sure that’s why Daniels had been invited to dine with him and made up this ludicrous story in order to skim some money off of one of the wealthiest men on the planet and he simply paid her to “make her go away”. Even if that was the kindest spin on it, TRUMP STILL fucked up because of how he paid her off.
re: #118 KGxvi
I think they genuinely fucked up the cross-examination today. Necheles going so hard on the sex part of the story and Daniels’ black out/disassociation opened the door for the prosecution on redirect. They didn’t seem to spend any real time or energy on the NDA or negotiations, you know, the stuff that might actually help their client.
There is a considerable division of opinion between here and FR on how things went with Daniels today. Freepers seem to think she was caught out in lie after lie and the whole case will crash and burn because of it. Maybe Trump thinks it went well too?
re: #120 nines09
And I bet it rains or is cloudy. Not kidding. THE big night? SOL.
Wife insists Economics is not the “Dismal Science”, but Astronomy. She never got over a really cold New Jersey night watching a mediocre Halley’s.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
JFC! This guy is from another fucking planet.
I’m not sure I want to read past the first sentence.
There is perhaps no leader in technology more misunderstood than Jack Dorsey, the enigmatic founder and (twice) former CEO of Twitter, now X.
👀 I’m thinking I’ll pass.
re: #123 Decatur Deb
I was driving back and forth between Pennsy and Indiana and got glorious views of Halley Bop comet back in the day. Actually some incredible views on the ridgetops on late clear nights.
Almost ethereal.
re: #124 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m not sure I want to read past the first sentence.
👀 I’m thinking I’ll pass.
Enigmatic: A word media people use for a complete fucking asshole whose reputation they’re trying to rehabilitate.
Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin barred from wife’s home amid contentious divorce case
A Louisville judge barred former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin from his Anchorage home, unless his estranged wife gives him permission, as part of a contentious divorce case.
Glenna Bevin claims her estranged husband repeatedly comes to the home unannounced and “initiates conversations concerning the parties’ divorce,” according to court records.
“He often stays for hours in spite of my requests he leave,” she said in court records.
Matt Bevin argued he comes to the home to see his children.
But while Matt Bevin “seems to be trying to keep the parties’ relationship and maintain a ‘business as usual environment,’” Jefferson Family Court Judge Angela Johnson said in court records last week, “the truth of the matter is that the parties are getting a divorce. Normalcy and the ‘business as usual’ environment are gone.’”
re: #121 piratedan
who you going to believe? A woman who gets paid to have sex in films or a serial adulterer, who’s been convicted of sexual assault and caught on tape that he has used his money and power to get women to sleep with him….
a conundrum for sure… I’m sure that’s why Daniels had been invited to dine with him and made up this ludicrous story in order to skim some money off of one of the wealthiest men on the planet and he simply paid her to “make her go away”. Even if that was the kindest spin on it, TRUMP STILL fucked up because of how he paid her off.
It’s that last line that’ll get him
re: #118 KGxvi
I think they genuinely fucked up the cross-examination today. Necheles going so hard on the sex part of the story and Daniels’ black out/disassociation opened the door for the prosecution on redirect. They didn’t seem to spend any real time or energy on the NDA or negotiations, you know, the stuff that might actually help their client.
It was the Carroll defamation trial all over again, this intense focus on their client’s reputation that leads to questioning that ends up making the witness more sympathetic and thus more believable than it does expose her as a “liar.” And based upon reporter remarks, it had the same reaction in their client that it did back then: A shit-eating grin and a strut in his step as though he’s “won” the trial already.
re: #118 KGxvi
I think they genuinely fucked up the cross-examination today. Necheles going so hard on the sex part of the story and Daniels’ black out/disassociation opened the door for the prosecution on redirect. They didn’t seem to spend any real time or energy on the NDA or negotiations, you know, the stuff that might actually help their client.
This had to be what Trump demanded. The slut-shaming approach was way overboard from the transcripts I’ve seen.
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